Emitter Shape…

[Anonymous]

Hi Guys…

I´ve seen an add on spanish Tv where a Heart (composed of text particles) blows up & spreads off all the particles…

My query is: Is it possible to apply any shape to an emmiter (Via import, expressions, etc), or am I stuck with point, line, circle & area ?

Thanks for your attention in forehand.

Carli 😛

[einstein]

Well you can’t import or paste any shape into the emitter, but you can draw it with bezier splines, if you use line or area emitter. This can be a bit clunky with feedback turned on as c* will try to redraw screen and slow down the response.

[Diogo Girondi]

Up to this point you’ll be stuck with the default shapes since discreet (autodesk) didn’t updated the Particle Illusion engine on version 4 of Combustion. It still uses the old engine which doesn’t give you the ability to emmit from custom shapes (channels). Maybe you can achieve your desired effect by using the stand alone version of Particle Illusion 3, Fusion 5 or most of the avaliable 3D apps on the market.

I hope it helps.

cheers,

[Anonymous]

Wow, thanks for the quick reply…

I imagined that these could not be done & had to be hand made… But in any case had to ask, you never know !!

dg wrote:

Maybe you can achieve your desired effect by using the stand alone version of Particle Illusion 3, Fusion 5 or most of the avaliable 3D apps on the market.

I will try with these…

Again, many thanks

Carli 8)

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